434 J. B. CLELAND AND E. CHEEL. 
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Top (April, 1913)—(Grant, ‘“‘Ann. Rep. Bot. Gdns., Syd.,”’ 
1902 (1903) and Cheel, idem 1911 and 1912). The spore 
measurements of these specimens were 12 to 18 X 8 to 10x. 
We have also received specimens, apparently of the same 
species, taken in a garden at Adelaide in June 1914. The 
stem was up to 8 ins. long with a much swollen base. The 
crowded free gills were a deep cinnamon, and the spores, 
lightly tinted under the microscope, 13°5 to 15°5 x 8°5yp, 
obliquely oval with a slight apiculus, and granular. The 
volva was not evident in the dried specimens and the col- 
lector had made no note as to its presence. Cooke (No. 
194) records the species only for Victoria. . 
PLUTEUS. 
Pluteus cervinus.—We have met with this species, in all 
instances on the ground, though possibly attached to buried 
wood, on three occasions, viz.,in brush forest at Bulli Pass 
(April, 1914) and at Mosman, Sydney (May and October, 
1914). The salmon-pink spores were somewhat quadri- 
laterally oval, 5°2 to 7 X 3°5 to Sv. Cooke and Massee 
both give slightly larger spore measurements, viz., 7 to 8 
xd to6y. The pale brownish cystidia were of an elongated 
diamond shape, 60 to 80 x 17+, the summit being flattened 
in rim form, the rim consisting of several spines. Cooke 
records the species for Tasmania and Victoria. 
HLAMMULA., 
Flammula filicea, Cooke.—We have obtained specimens 
agreeing exactly with the plate of this fungus given in 
Cooke’s Illustrations of British Fungi, and with the descrip- 
tion of the species as given by Massee. The latter author 
mentions that the species was found on old tree-fern stems, 
and was probably an introduced, not British, species. It 
is, therefore, quite possible that it was imported from 
Australia on tree-ferns. The species is not recorded for 
Australia and, as it is considerably variable, we were at 
